Nail-stripper.



G. MARSHALL.

NAIL STRIPPER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6, 1915.

1 204,678. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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NAIL-STRIPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent; Patented N 14, 1916.

Application filed October 6, 1915. Serial No. 54,409.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE MARSHALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Fresno, county of Fresno, and State of California, have invented anew and useful improvement in nail-strippers for arranging nails in rows with the heads upward in such position that they can be readily grasped for use.

Nail strippers of this character are in general use by box makers and mechanics who drive large quantities of nails.

More in detail my invention relates to the shape of the bottomof the hopper which assists the nails in sliding readily into position, the adjustment of the angle of the runners and hopper to regulate the sliding of the nails, the adjustment of the runners horizontally to receive nails of difierent sizes, and a stop block so formed that the nail heads will be forced into a position so the head of the outside nail, when grasped by the hand, will be on the top, and other objects which will hereinafter appear.

In the drawing accompanying this specification, Figure 1 shows a side view of the boX and stripper complete. Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of the stop block, showing its relation with the runner. the lower part of the runner on the sectional line 00. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the upper part of the runner on sectional line y. Fig; 6 shows the arrangement of the pieces forming the bottom of the under hopper.

In said drawing 1 represents a box, having a lid 2. Vhen adjusted for use, box 1 is set approximately on a horizontal plane, and lid '2 is opened at right angles to box 1, and is braced in such position by brace 7 This brace is pivoted at one end to lid 2, and the other end contains a slot 72 which is constructed to pass over a pin 73 attached to box 1. Pin 73 is provided with a winged nut 74 whereby brace 7 can be clamped to the box, and by which lid 2 is held inan upright position.

3 is the upper hopper which has a V shapedbottom and ordinary perpendicular sides. In the drawing the bottom is shown with adouble V. The bottom can be made with one or more Vs, one V being necessary for each runner,hereinafter described. Hopper3 is attached at the one end to lid 2 by Fig. 4 is a sectional view o1":v

means of a clamp .82, which is slidably dis- I length of such hopper. .I found it better to makeeach V separate, and with an overlapping portion 12, shown in Fig. 6, to attach it to the adjoining V "in case the bottom consists of more than one V. Under hopper 4 is attached to upper hopper'3 under it, and at such an angle that the nails placed therein will readily slide down the length of the V portion of the bottom, and. many of the nails in sliding in this manner will fall through the slots with their points downward. v i

I have formed a set of nail chutes 5 for each V. These chutes are approximately double the length of the bottom of the hopper, and consist of upper runners 5 v and lower runners 5 which are hinged together as hereinafter explained. The runners 5 extend lengthwise under the bottom of the under hopper, are attached thereto, and consistsof twoparts, 51 and 52 one of which parts is attached to each side of slot 34. The rods forming the parts 51 and .52 are shown by a transverse sectional view (see Fig. 5) to be trapezoids, and in assembling them the beveled portions are placed in such relation to each other that the slot formed by them is wider underneath than on the top. nail strippers now in use the slot in the runners or'chutes has the same Width on the under side as on the. upper side, and when the nails are dropped therein and suspended -.by their heads they can have no side movement, and in such strippers when two nails are accidentally crossed in the slot, they bind therein. The object of my invention is to untangle the nails which may fall into the slots and slide downwardly therein. Thisis accomplished by providing aspace under the portion of the runners supporting the heads of the nails wherein the nails can swing sidewise while thus suspended. The

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4 by a bolt and nut, and having the hole through which the bolt passes in 51 elongated transversely.

The lower runner 5 consists of two parallel bars 51 and 52 which are placed in such relation to each other and to upper runner 5 that there is a slot of approximately the same width formed, and the slots formed in upper runner 5 and lower runner 5 are on a vertical plane, but the slot in lower runner 5 is under the slot in 5 and slightly overlaps it. The lower runner 5 is hinged to upper runner 5 in such relation that when a nail slides down the slot in upper runner 5 and drops out of the bottom thereof, that it will catch in the slot in under runner 5 and the slot is enlarged where the upper and lower runners are joined so the operator can grasp the nails and withdraw them from the slot where the slot is enlarged. For the purpose of hinging the lower runner to the upper runner, and of enlarging the slot at the point of such hinge, I have formed the upper runner 5 with a bent down portion which is also bent outwardly'from the slot, and the under runner 5 has a bent up portion which is also bent out from the slot, and these bent down and bent up portions are pivoted together preferably with a round bolt and nut so the upper and lower runners can be adjusted either onparallel planes or at an angle to each other.

A cross sectional view of the bars forming under runner 5* show that they are rectangular, the purpose being to have the slot formed by bars 51 and 52 rectangular. This form keeps the nails from piling up in the slot.

The slot formed by bars 51 and 52 can be adjusted for large or small nails as hereinafter described. Under runners 51 and 52 are attached at the end opposite the hinge portion to a bar 9 which is placed at right angles to the runners, by a bolt and nut, the bolt passing through an ordinary round hole in the under runners, and through an elongated hole in bar 9 which permits the bars to be adjusted, and clamped in the adjustment desired.

6 is a support pivoted to brace 7. It has a plurality of holes of uniform size, 61. One of such supports is at each side of box 1. Bar 9 is reduced at each end to fit into force the nails placed therin. to slide therefrom. The runners attached to under hopper 4 are supported at their lower ends by bar 9. Each is then placed in supports 6, and the several parts of the stripper are adjusted so the nails placed in the under hopper will readily slide down the runners with the points hanging downward through the slots in the runners.

In a nail stripper it is desirable to have the nails arranged in the slot in the lower runner 5 so when grasped between the thumb and first finger and removed from the stripper through the enlarged portion of the slot, that the head of each nail will be 89 below the head of each adjacent nail farther from the point of the lingers. To accomplish this object I have constructed a bumper 10, which I have attached to the lower end of the runners 5, and across the slot therein. This bumper is beveled as shown in Fig. 3, and when the first nail sliding down the runners reaches the bumper its head will ride on such bumper, and the head of such nail will form a sloping sur- 9o face to guide the next nail head so it will ride upon the last preceding nail which entered the slot, and when the operator re moves the nails from the stripper for use they are in the order to use as hereinbefore referred to.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a nail stripper, a hopper having a V shaped bottom and a slot lengthwise in said bottom along the apex of said V, and means for adjusting the slant of said hopper. in combination with runners consisting of an upper and lower section, said upper section being attached to the bottom of said hopper and having a slot therein which registers with the slot in the bottom of the hopper, said upper section extending the entire length of the bottom of said hopper, and slightly beyond such bottom, said upper section having a bent down portion, said lower section having a slot therein on a common vertical plane with the slot in said upper section, and having a bent up portion at one end thereof, the slot in the bent down portion of the upper section being enlarged sufiiciently to contain the bent up portion of the said lower section, pivotal hinges connecting said upper section with said lower section at the ends having such bent down portion and bent up portion, means for clamping said upper section and lower section together at any angle at which they may be placed, means for supporting said lower section, and means for adjusting said runners in a slanting position, all substantially as described.

' 2. In a nail stripper, a hopper having a V shaped bottom and a slot lengthwise in said bottom at the apex of the V therein, a runner constructed with an upper and lower section, said upper section being attached to said bottom, and having a slot therein which registers with the slot in the bottom of said hopper, said slot in the upper section being wider on the under side than on the upper side, said lower section being hinged to the upper section, clamp means to make such lower section rigid with the upper section, said lower section having a slot of the same relative width as the slot in the upper section and having an enlargement of the slot at the hinge portion of said lower section, said lower section being on a plane beneath the upper section and slightly overlapping it, and said slot in the upper and lower sections being on the same vertical plane, a support for the runner at the end thereof opposite said hopper, and means for adjusting the runner at an angle to said bottom, all substantially as described.

3. In a nail stripper, a hopper having a V shaped bottom and a slot lengthwise in said bottom at the apex of said V, a runner consisting of an upper section and a lower section hinged together so that the lower section is on a plane slightly below the plane of the upper section and slightly underlapping it, said upper runner being attached to the bottom of said hopper and having a slot therein which registers with the slot in the bottom of said hopper, and the lower section being constructed of rectangular bars having a bent up portion at the end where they are hinged to said upper section, and placed parallel to form a slot on the same vertical plane as that of the slot in the upper section, and having an enlargement of the slot at the bent up portion of said bars, a support for said runner at the end of the lower section opposite the hopper, means for adjusting the slant of said runner, and means for clamping said runner and hopper in adjusted position, all substantially as described.

4. In a nail stripper, a hopper having a V shaped bottom and a slot lengthwise in said bottom at the apex of the V therein, a runner consisting of an upper section and a lower section hinged together so the lower section is on a plane slightly below and un derlapping the plane of the upper section, said upper section being attached to the hopper bottom, and having a. slot therein which registers with the slot in the bottom of the hopper, and the lower section extending beyond said bottom, and having a slot therein on a vertical plane with the slot in the upper section, said slot in the upper and lower sections being approximately of uniform width and having an enlargement of the slot where the upper section and the lower section are hinged together, a support for said lower section at the end thereof opposite the hopper, means for adjusting the slant of the runner and for clamping the runner to such support, in combination with a stop block at the lower end of the slot in such runner consisting of a beveled member attached to the runner at the lower end thereof, in such relation that the plane of the beveled face of said beveled member is at an obtuse angle to the plane of the lower section from the beveled member to the bent up portion at the hinge.

5. In a nail stripper, a box, a lid hinged to said box and adjustable at right angles to the bottom of such box, braces connecting such lid with such box and constructed to be clamped thereto, an upper hopper attached to such lid in such position that it is i directly over said box, an under hopper pivoted to such upper hopper, and directly under it, the plane of the bottom of such under hopper being at an angle to the plane of the bottom of the upper hopper, the under hopper having slots in the bottom, runners approximately double the length of the bottom of the under hopper attached to such under hopper, such runners having slots therein which register with the slots in the bottom of the under hopper, such runners having a bent portion so arranged that the slot is the same width at each end of the runner and enlarged at said bent portion, the part of said runner attached to the under hopper being on a higher plane than the part of such runner on the side of the bent portion opposite the hopper, a support for the said runners, means for adjusting the slant of said runners combined, consisting of a bar attached to the lower ends of the runners, a support on each side of the box pivoted to the brace connecting the box and the lid, and means for clamping the support to the brace, said supports contaming a row of holes, and sald supporting bar having reduced ends to fit within such holes and' being of such length that it reaches from the support on the one side to the support on the other side of said box, all substantially as described.

GEORGE MARSHALL. Witnesses JULIUS Hansen, D. E. SORENSEN.

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